National Talent Hunt Program Sukkur IBA University Solved Test-Ihsan Trust
English M.C.Q’s
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For questions, 1-10, decide which answer (A, B, C or D) best fits each blank.
Tennis is my 1 sport. Nothing else comes close to a
great competitive activity. For one thing,
it’s easier to get a 2 going than with a team sport. All you need are 3 _ people,
one on each side. Secondly, you can play for 4
at many public courts. Sure, you have to buy a racquet,
but a 5 one should last for many 6
_. And a can of tennis
7 only costs a couple of dollars.
In addition, if you play
tennis, you get a lot of 8 . Compare it to a sport like a baseball, where players spend most of their 9
standing around waiting
for something to happen.
Yes,
as far as I’m concerned, tennis is the 10 sport in the world!
1.
A. funny B. easiest C. old D. favourite
2.
A. game B. car C. player D. ball
3.
A. one B. two C. three D. four
4.
A. free B. fun C. hours D. money
5.
A. wooden B. blue C. used D. good
6.
A. hours B. days C. sports D. years
7.
A. courts B. balls C. corn D. racquets
8.
A. money B. fun C. sprains D. exercise
9.
A. money B. help C. time D. paper
10.
A. best B. worst C. same D. cheapest
For questions, 11-20, decide which answer (A, B,
C or D) best fits each blank.
Take a big truck. Take a comfortable
little house. Put them 11 and what do you get? A motorhome. A motorhome has all the
comforts of 12. A complete kitchen is standard, with
a stove and 13. Most 14 motorhomes come from the factory with a
microwave oven too. They have small dining room tables and seats called dinettes. They have living room 15
such as couches, chairs, and a television of course.
Motorhomes come with
complete bathrooms. There’s no need to look for a restroom along the highway. Time to wash up? No problem.
The well-equipped motorhome has a shower; some
even have bathtubs. When you’re 16, just pull open the couch, rearrange
the dinette, or walk back to the
bedroom. There are sleeping accommodations for the whole family. You can use a motorhome almost anywhere. They produce
and store their own electricity. They have 17
to
18 many gallons of fresh water and wastewater as well. When it’s time to go 19
or to just 20 in
style, nothing beats a
motorhome!
11. A. close B. sideways C. apart D. together
12. A. cotton B. home C.
pillows D. nails
13. A. shower B. toilet C. camera D. refrigerator
14. A. new B. old C.
broken D. fast
15. A. carpets B. furniture C.
windows D. curtains
16. 
A. cautious B.
serious C. angry D. tired
17. A. cups B. tanks C.
pails D. glasses
18. A. leak B. watch C. hold D. container
19. A. crying B.
home C. camping D. backwards
20. A. dress B. design C. drive D. travel
For questions, 21-27, decide which answer (A, B, C or
D) best fits each
blank.
21. Ride is
to ride
as the row is to.
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A. road |
B. rode |
C. rowed |
D. route |
22. Bill
is to Bill's as it is to.
|
A. its |
B. it's |
C. Bills |
D. it |
23. They
are is to they're as it is is to.
|
A.
its |
B. it's |
C. iti' |
D. is |
24. Close
is to as
good as too well.
|
A. water |
B. closed |
C. open |
D. closely |
25. 
Create is to creation
as arrange is to.
|
A. arrangement |
B. arranged |
C. arranged |
D. arranges |
26. Baby
is to babies as a woman is
to.
|
A.
girls |
B. adult |
C. plural |
D. women |
27. Man is to his as
men are too.
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A.
Her |
B. toys |
C. boy |
D. their |
For questions 28-31, choose the best option
(A, B, C or D)
28.28.
Your cousin claimed to be late because
the doors of his house were frozen shut. Even though I have my doubts, his explanation is plausible. It got really cold last night. I'll just have to take
his word for it.
If
a statement is plausible,.
A. you must always believe
it
B.
you should never believe it
C.
it's
hard to understand because it makes
no sense
D.
it's believable enough to possibly be true 29.
If you don't curtail your spending, you'll be broke in no time at all! Which
word is a synonym for "curtail"?
A. reduce
B. follow
C. behind
D. buy
30.
No word must ever leak out about this military action! It has to be a clandestine operation to succeed.
Which word is a synonym for "clandestine"?
A.
family
B. useful
C. dangerous
D.
secret 31.
Put this medicine on your arm and rub it into your skin until it's invisible. It will inhibit the
infection's attempt to spread.
What does “inhibit” mean?
A.
live in a certain place
B.
block or slow down
C. itch or burn
D. help to do something important
For questions 32-41, choose the best option
(A, B, C or D)
Once upon a time in a land now lost in
time, there lived a beautiful young princess named Princess Megan. She lived in a 32 palace where every 33
was met. She had ice cream with every meal. She had clothes
made of pure gold. She even had her 34 phones in her bedroom! The palace was indeed a wonderful place to live. It
was 35. It was exciting. It was safe.
Did I
say safe? Well not entirely.
You see, just outside the
palace, there was a magnificent 36. In that garden grew the most spectacular 37
and the most 38
fruits and vegetables.
However, in that garden there 39 grew
the Terrible Onion. No one __40 the Terrible Onion. But it was said that the Terrible Onion would pop out of the ground
and eat people when the 41 struck then.
32.
A. cold B. grand C. stone D. small
33.
A. friend B. pet C. wish D.
enemy
34.
A. toy B. own C.
plastic D. old
35.
A. luxurious B.
drafty C. ancient D.
wooden
36.
A. garden B. tree C.
pool D. lawn
37.
A. fireworks B.
sounds C. flowers D.
stones
38.
A. rotten B. pretty C. delicious D. costly
39.
A. also B. never C.
often D. did
40.
A. eats B. called C. felt D.
ate
41.
A. stick B. car C. lightning D.
mood
For questions
42-45, choose the best option
(A, B, C or D).
Read each paragraph carefully. Choose the best answer
to the questions that follow.
42.42.
Juan loves to play games. His favourite
game is chess because it requires a great deal of thought. Juan also likes to play less demanding
board games that are based mostly on luck. He prefers Monopoly because it requires luck and skill. If he’s alone, Juan
likes to play action video games as long as they aren’t
too violent.
What
is the main idea of this paragraph?
A.
Juan
dislikes violence.
B.
Juan
likes to think.
C.
Juan
enjoys Monopoly.
D. Juan enjoys playing games.
43.43.
Maria
is watching too much television. A toddler shouldn’t
be spending hours staring blankly at a screen. Worse yet, some of her wild
behaviour has been inspired by those awful cartoons she watches. We need to spend more time reading books
with her and pull the plug on the
TV!
What
is the main idea of this paragraph?
A. Watching a lot of television isn’t good for Maria.
B. Books
are good.
C.
All cartoons
are bad.
D.
Some
cartoons are bad for Maria.
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Samantha, I can’t eat or sleep when you
are gone. I need to hear your
scratchy voice and see your lovely
toothless smile. I miss that special way that you eat soup with your fingers.
Please come home soon!
What
is the main idea of this paragraph?
A. Samantha, you have bad manners.
B.
Samantha, you should see a dentist.
C. Samantha, I miss you.
D.
Samantha, I have lost my
appetite.
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Someday we will all have robots that
will be our personal servants. They will look and behave much like real humans. We will be able to talk to these
mechanical helpers and they will be able to
respond in kind. Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn from
experience. They will be smart,
strong, and untiring workers whose only goal will be to make
our lives easier.
Which
sentence from the paragraph expresses the main idea?
A. Someday we will all have
robots that will be our personal servants.
B.
We will
be able to talk to these mechanical helpers and they will be able to respond in kind.
C.
They will
look and behave much like real
humans.
D.
Amazingly, the robots of the future will be able to learn
from experience.
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Mathematics M.C.Q’s
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No. of Questions: 50 (from 46 to 95) Time allowed: 80 Minutes
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Questions starting from page 5 Negative markings:
Yes
Q46 The sum of three consecutive natural numbers is 3000. The smallest of these three
numbers is
A) 1002
B) 1001
C) 1000
D) 999
Q47 The length of the rectangle is 6 cm more than its breadth. If the perimeter of the rectangle
is 308 cm, find the area of
the rectangle
A) 6000 cm2
B) 5960 cm2
C) 5920 cm2
D) 5880 cm2
Q48 Find the solution
set of the equation: –8 + |6y – 7| =
3
2
A) {3, 3}
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B) {3, − 2}
C) {3}
2
D) { 3}
Q49 Find the solution
set of the equation: |7 – x| < 2, ∀ x ∈ ℝ
A)
{x | x ∈ ℝ
and x < 5}
B)
{x | x ∈ ℝ and 5 < x < 9}
C)
{x | x ∈ ℝ
and x < 9}
D)
{x | x ∈ ℝ
and –5 < x < 9}
Q50 Find the solution
set of (2x + 1)(2x – 1) + 1 = 0
A) {0}
B) {0, −1}
C) {0, 1}
D) {1, −1}
Q51 Eliminate
t from the following equations:
x = 8t, y =
128t2
A)
y =
x2
B)
y = 2x2
C)
y =
4x2
2
D)
x =
2y
Q52 The mean proportional between 100 and 160
is
A) 400
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B) 230
C) 20√10
D) 40√10
Q53 If x 𝖺
A) 4.5
B) 18
1
𝑦 and x is 9
when y = 15, find x when y is 30
C) 135
D) None of these
Q54 If the measures of angles of a triangle are proportional to 1, 2 and 3, then the measure of the largest angle of the triangle
will be
0
A)
30
0
B)
60
0
C)
90
0
D) 120
Q55 The marks obtained by 80 students in a Mathematics test are given below:
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Marks |
20 |
30 |
40 |
50 |
60 |
70 |
80 |
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Number of Students |
5 |
10 |
15 |
20 |
15 |
10 |
5 |
The Arithmetic Mean of
marks is
A) 30
B) 40
C)
50
D)
60
Q56 Find the value
of x if the median for 2, 3, 7, x, 10, 15 is 8
A) 6
B)
7
C)
8
D) 9
Q57 The variance
of the following set of
observations is
–2,
–1, 0, 1, 2
A) 2
B) 1.6
C) 1.2
D) 0.8
Q58 If two circles of diameters
20 cm and 10 cm touch externally, the distance between their centres
is
A) 5 cm
B)
10 cm
C) 30 cm
D)
None
of these
Q59 The set of
all points of a plane which are equidistant from a fixed point is
called
A) an ellipse
B)
a parabola
C)
a hyperbola
D) a circle
Q60 If
the value of sin β is 0.8, what is
the value of sin –β?
A) 0.2
B) 0.8
C) –0.2
D) –0.8
Q61 In the
given triangle a = 21 and c = 29.
The value of
sin B is
20
A)
41
21
B)
41
20
C)
29
21
D)
29
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0 0
2sin 45 + 0.5 cosec 45 =
5
A)
B)
C)
D)
2√2
3
√2 5
√2 3
2√2
Q63 {1, 2, 3,
5, 7} ∆
{3, 5, 7, 9, 11}
A) {1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11}
B) {3, 5,
7}
C) {1, 2, 9, 11}
D) None of these
Q64 The domain of the binary relation R = {(2, 1), (4,
3), (6, 5), (8, 7)} is
A) {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}
B) {1, 3,
5, 7}
C) {2, 4,
6, 8}
D) None of these
Q65 The relation
R = {(a, b) | a = 2b} in Z, the set of integers, has the range {4, 8, 10, 12}. Its domain is given by
A) {2, 4, 5, 6}
B) {8, 16,
20, 24}
C) {2, 4,
5, 6, 8, 16, 20, 24}
D) None of these
Q66 If M = [1 2] [1 1] then |M|
3 4 3 3
A)
–2
B)
2
C) zero
D)
None
of these
Q67 The inverse of A =
[13 −4] is
3 1
A) 25 [ 13 −4]
−3 1
B) 0.04
[ 1 4 ]
−3 13
C) 25 [1 3 ]
4 13
D) None of these
Q68 The length of a rectangle is 10 cm more than its breadth. If the perimeter of the rectangle
is 100 cm, then the area of the
rectangle will be
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C) √600 cm2
D) None of these
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2
Suppose z is some constant and w = 11, is a solution
of the equation w + zw + 33 = 0,
then the other solution of the quadratic
equation is
A)
8
B)
–8
C)
3
D) –3
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Q70 The value of cosec 600 is
√3
A)
2 1
B)
2
1
C)
√3
2
D)
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√3
Q71 The value of √5(√35 + √125) is
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A) √5(5 + 2√31)
B) 5(5 + √7 )
C) (√5 + 12)
D) None of these
Q72 The sum of three consecutive integers, of which
x is the largest integer.
A) 3x
B) 3x + 1
C) 3x + 2
D) 3x – 3
Q73 Which expression is equivalent to 2log(4/𝑥),
A) (log4 – log)2
B)
log16 – 2logx
C)
–2log4logx
D)
None
of these
Q74 The value of
3√64𝑥12𝑦15
A) 16𝑥36𝑦45
B)
8𝑥4𝑦5
C) 4𝑥4𝑦5
D) None of these
Q75 What
should be added to 6x3 + 13x2 + 4x + 20, so that it becomes exactly divisible by 2 + x2?
A) – 8x + 6
B) – 8x – 6
C) 8x – 6
D) 8x + 6
Q76 Find the value of 𝑥4 + 1
𝑥4
when 𝑥 + 𝑥 = 2
Q77
A) 2
B) 
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4
C) 8
D) 16
3 2 5
The degree
of the polynomial 6xy
A) two
B)
three
C) four
D)
five
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2 2
H.C.F of 28x y and 42xy is
A) 14xy
B) 28xy
2
C) 42xy
2
D) 56xy
+ 13xz
+ 4xyz + 20
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2 2 2
The least common multiple of x + x –
6, 2x + 9x + 9
and x + 7x + 12
is
A) (x –
2)
B) (2x + 3)(x + 4)
C) (x – 2)(2x + 3)(x + 4)
D) (x – 2)(2x + 3)(x + 4)(x + 3)
Q80 The equation ax2 + x + c = 0, will
not represent a quadratic
equation, if
A) a = 1
B) a = 0 and c G 0
C) ac ≠ 0
D) a > 0 and c < 0
Q81 Which of the following is irrational?
A) 22
7
B) 0.3333…
C) 0.16666….
D) 𝜋
Q82 Solution set of √𝑥 = –6 is A) {
6 }
B) { 36 }
C) { }
D) { –36 }
Q83 Find x when
the Matrix is singular
1
3
A)
2
B) –2
C) 3
D)
None
of these
Q84 x2 – x + 1 = 8 is a
A) linear equation
B) quadratic equation
C)
cubic
equation
D)
None
of these
Q85 x3 – x2 + 2 =
A) (x + 1)(x2 – 2x – 2)
B) (x +
1)(x2 – 2x +
2)
C) (x – 1)(x2 + 2x + 2)
D) (x – 1)(x2 – 2x – 2)
Q86 If (x3 – x2 – 226x + 1410) is divided by (x +
17), then the remainder is
A) 20
B) 30
C) 40
D) 50
3𝑧2−𝑧w
Q87 Simplified
form of 2𝑧2−3𝑧w2 is
3𝑧+w
A)
B)
C)
D)
w(2𝑧−3w)
(3𝑧−w)w (2𝑧−3w)
𝑧−3w w(3𝑧−2w)
3𝑧−w
2𝑧−3w2
Q88 In the
matrix[10 20],
the diagonal elements are
30 40
A) 10, 20
B) 30, 40
C) 20, 30
D) 10, 40
Q89 If A = [ 1 3], then |A–1| =
2 4
A)
2
B)
–2
C) 0.5
D) –0.5
Q90 Suppose a system of two equations in two unknowns
is given in matrix form as Ax
= [10].
20
If A is a non-singular matrix with A–1 = [ 10 15], then the unique
solution of the system is
20 25
given by
A) [25]
45
B) [700]
400
C) [400]
700
D) None of these
Q91 Construction
of a
triangle is possible when the sum
of measures of two sides is the
third side.
A) equal to
B)
greater than
C) less than
D) All of these
Q92 Consider the following six real numbers
20 10 –20 19 –10 –19
i) (10) ii) (–20) ii) (20) iv)
(– 30) v) (–20) vi) (–19)
A) all numbers
are positive
B) all numbers
are negative
C)
two numbers are negative
and four numbers are positive
D)
two numbers
are positive and four numbers
are negative Q93 Find
an if log𝑎
243 = 5
A)
2
B)
3
C) 4
D) 5
Q94 log11 5 =
log11 15
A) log11 15
B) log11 5
C) log5 15
D) log15 5
Q95 The Distributive Property
of Intersection over Union
is given by
A) A
(B C)
= (A
B) (A C)
B) (A B)' = (A' B')
C) A (B C) = (A B) (A C)
D) (A B)' = (A' B')